Stripping away myths about Josef Stalin...

NEW WORD.

March 29, 1988

MOSCOW — NEW WORD. Stripping away myths about Josef Stalin continues under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost. The magazine Ogonek reported Monday that the iron-fisted tyrant once had the wives of two Soviet leaders arrested and sent off to prison camps. Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov continued to serve Stalin loyally while Yekaterina Kalinin languished for a decade in a prison camp as an enemy of the people and Paulina Molotov was held for nearly five years. Ogonek became the first Soviet publication to use the word ''gulag'' -- the name for the infamous Stalin prison system.